Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Musical Chairs

By: Amy Poeppel

Narrated by: Amanda Carlin, Matthew Lloyd Davies, Gibson Fra...

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

“Poeppel has created a story that is well thought out, well plotted, well written, and fully developed. A delightful novel that celebrates the messiness and joy to be found in real life.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“100% page-turning delight…Pull out a lawn chair and prepare to read this gleefully entertaining novel.” —Stephen McCauley,... Read more

Swing Time

By: Zadie Smith

Narrated by: Pippa Bennett-Warner

Length: 13 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

“Smith’s thrilling cultural insights never overshadow the wholeness of her characters, who are so keenly observed that one feels witness to their lives.” —O, The Oprah Magazine

“A sweeping meditation on art, race, and identity that may be [Smith’s] most ambitious work yet.” —Esquire

A New York Times bestseller • Finalist for the National Book... Read more

Lucky Boy

By: Shanthi Sekaran

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani & Roxana Ortega

Length: 16 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping tale of adventure and searing reality, Lucky Boy gives voice to two mothers bound together by their love for one lucky boy.

“Sekaran has written a page-turner that’s touching and all too real.”—People

“A fiercely compassionate story about the bonds and the bounds of motherhood and, ultimately, of love.”—Cristina Henríquez, author of The... Read more

The Last Tale of the Flower Bride

By: Roshani Chokshi

Narrated by: Steve West & Sura Siu

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

""A fairy tale in the oldest and truest sense: a haunting dream full of blood and love, vicious truths and beautiful lies. It swallowed me whole, and I went willingly."" — Alix E. Harrow, New York Times bestselling author of Starling House“Decadence laced with horror . . . A delightfully meta fairy tale . . . Magic emanates from every... Read more

American Pop

By: Snowden Wright

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 12 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

""The House of Forster is built on bubbles; watching each wealth-addled generation try not to blow the family fortune and/or disgrace its name provides not only excellent Southern Gothic fun but a panoramic tour of the American Century.""— Jonathan Dee, author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The PrivilegesThe story of a family.
The story of an... Read more

Dear Miss Metropolitan

By: Carolyn Ferrell

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A finalist for the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
A finalist for the 2022 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel

Introducing an extraordinary and original writer whose first novel explores the intersections of grief and rage, personal strength and healing—and what we owe one another.

Fern seeks refuge from her mother’s pill-popping and boyfriends... Read more

The Sport of Kings

By: C. E. Morgan

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 23 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Hellsmouth, an indomitable thoroughbred with the blood of Triple Crown winners in her veins, runs for the glory of the Forge family, one of Kentucky’s oldest and most powerful dynasties. Henry Forge has partnered with his daughter, Henrietta, in an endeavor of raw obsession: to breed the next superhorse, the next Secretariat. But when Allmon... Read more

The Farewell Tour

By: Stephanie Clifford

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

AUDIOBOOK FEATURES EXCERPTS FROM FOUR ORIGINAL SONGS WRITTEN AND COMPOSED BY THE AUTHORFrom the author of the New York Times bestseller Everybody Rise, a rich and riveting novel with the exquisite historical detail and evocative settings of The Cold Millions and Great Circle that tells the story of one unforgettable woman’s rise in country and... Read more

A Good Life

By: Virginie Grimaldi

Narrated by: Liz Fodor

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

"Lovers of Europa Editions' other titles My Brilliant Friend and Fresh Water for Flowers will fall hard for this beautiful, heartbreaking, and healing story. Grab a box of tissues!" — Electric LitFull of humor and compassion, this Indie Next Pick is a profound exploration of sisterhood, healing, and the ineffable beauty of life.Sisters Emma and... Read more

She Would Be King

By: Wayétu Moore

Narrated by: Wayétu Moore

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Sarah Jessica Parker and the American Library Association Book Club Central Official SelectionA novel of exhilarating range, magical realism, and history―a dazzling retelling of Liberia’s formationWayétu Moore’s powerful debut novel, She Would Be King, reimagines the dramatic story of Liberia’s early years through three unforgettable characters... Read more

I Make Envy on Your Disco

By: Eric Schnall

Narrated by: Charlie Carver

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Barbara DiBernard Prize in Fiction

"A funny and moving debut."—Charles Arrowsmith, The Washington Post

“A love letter to Berlin, to travel, and to saying yes to life.”—Alan Cumming

It’s the new millennium and the anxiety of midlife is creeping up on Sam Singer, a thirty-seven-year-old art advisor. Fed up with his partner and his life... Read more

Sharks in the Time of Saviors

By: Kawai Strong Washburn

Narrated by: Tui Asau, G.K. Bowes, Kaleo Griffith & Jolene Kim

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Sharks in the Time of Saviors is a groundbreaking debut novel that folds the legends of Hawai’ian gods into an engrossing family saga; a story of exile and the pursuit of salvation from Kawai Strong Washburn.
In 1995 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, on a rare family vacation, seven-year-old Nainoa Flores falls overboard a cruise ship into the Pacific Ocean.... Read more

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

By: Shirley Jackson

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Shirley Jackson’s deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family takes readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, macabre humor, and gothic atmosphere.Six years after four family members died suspiciously of arsenic poisoning, the three remaining Blackwoods—elder, agoraphobic sister Constance;... Read more

Stay Up with Hugo Best

By: Erin Somers

Narrated by: Sarah Steele

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

**One of Vogue’s Best Books of the Year ** “Incisive, funny, and tinged with melancholy, the timely novel follows two lost but clever souls desperate for connection.” —Entertainment Weekly

June Bloom is twenty-nine, broke, and an aspiring comedy writer. Hugo Best is a beloved late-night TV icon and notorious womanizer who invites her to his... Read more

The New Me

By: Halle Butler

Narrated by: Halle Butler

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"[A] definitive work of millennial literature . . . wretchedly riveting." —Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker

“Girls + Office Space + My Year of Rest and Relaxation + anxious sweating = The New Me.” —Entertainment Weekly

I'm still trying to make the dream possible: still might finish my cleaning project, still might sign up for that yoga class,... Read more

Everyone Brave is Forgiven

By: Chris Cleave

Narrated by: Luke Thompson

Length: 12 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The instant New York Times bestseller from Chris Cleave—the unforgettable novel about three lives entangled during World War II, told “with dazzling prose, sharp English wit, and compassion…a powerful portrait of war’s effects on those who fight and those left behind” (People, Book of the Week).

London, 1939. The day war is declared, Mary North... Read more

The Talented Miss Farwell

By: Emily Gray Tedrowe

Narrated by: Allyson Ryan

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Catch Me If You Can meets Patricia Highsmith in this electrifying page-turner of greed and obsession, survival and self-invention that is a piercing character study of one unforgettable female con artist.""Becky Farwell is one of the most wickedly compelling characters I've read in ages -- a Machiavellian marvel, a modern Becky Sharp, a... Read more

Lights All Night Long

By: Lydia Fitzpatrick

Narrated by: Michael Crouch

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping and deftly plotted narrative of family and belonging, Lights All Night Long is a dazzling debut novel from an acclaimed young writer

"A luminous debut. . . . It's hard not to read the book in a single sitting."--The Los Angeles Times

"Lights All Night Long is utterly brilliant and completely captivating. . . . One of the most... Read more

The Summer Before the War

By: Helen Simonson

Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham

Length: 15 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A novel to cure your Downton Abbey withdrawal . . . a delightful story about nontraditional romantic relationships, class snobbery and the everybody-knows-everybody complications of living in a small community.”—The Washington Post

The bestselling author of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand returns with a breathtaking... Read more

The Editor

By: Steven Rowley

Narrated by: Michael Urie

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus comes a novel about a struggling writer who gets his big break, with a little help from the most famous woman in America.

After years of trying to make it as a writer in 1990s New York City, James Smale finally sells his novel to an editor at a major publishing house: none other than Jacqueline... Read more

Motherhood

By: Sheila Heti

Narrated by: Sheila Heti

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of How Should a Person Be? (“one of the most talked-about books of the year”—Time Magazine) and the New York Times Bestseller Women in Clothes comes a daring audiobook about whether to have children.

In Motherhood, Sheila Heti asks what is gained and what is lost when a woman becomes a mother, treating the most consequential... Read more

Woman of Light

By: Kali Fajardo-Anstine

Narrated by: Melinna Bobadilla

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “dazzling, cinematic, intimate, lyrical” (Roxane Gay) epic of betrayal, love, and fate that spans five generations of an Indigenous Chicano family in the American West, from the author of the National Book Award finalist Sabrina & Corina
 
“Sometimes you just step into a book and let it wash over you, like you’re... Read more

The Mutual Friend

By: Carter Bays

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 15 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

“This is a rare thing: an original, intelligent novel that’s not just a perfect summer beach read, but one that deserves serious awards consideration as well. Put down your phone and pick it up. . . . A major accomplishment.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

From the co-creator of How I Met Your Mother, a hilarious and thought-provoking debut... Read more

The Sun Walks Down

By: Fiona McFarlane

Narrated by: Emma Jones

Length: 12 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Audiobooks of 2023

"Such a large cast of characters would normally be difficult to keep straight in an audiobook without tedious backtracking, but McFarlane’s skill in evoking their distinct inner lives and Jones’s deftness in capturing them in manner and accent keep them perfectly distinct." —The Washington... Read more